Sentences with phrase «spacecraft reached orbit»

When the spacecraft reached orbit, it opened the experiment's door and exposed one group of water bears to the vacuum of space, while shielding them from all radiation.

Not exact matches

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

NASA launched the Juno spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems (lmt), in August 2011, and it finally reached Jupiter's orbit in July 2016.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top of the atmosphere.

The robotic spacecraft would be capable of approaching the asteroid, characterising it, capturing it, and then redirecting it to a final stable orbit that would be closer to Earth and thus easier for astronauts to reach.

After 13 years revolutionizing our understanding of the solar system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft melted this morning during its final, fatal partial orbit into the upper reaches of Saturn.

Once a satellite reaches the trajectory, few, if any, station - keeping maneuvers are required to keep it there — a particularly attractive option for mass - constrained spacecraft that can't carry propellant to periodically power thrusters to maintain an orbit.

When the seals reach the surface, the information is transmitted to an orbiting spacecraft.

It was going so slowly that Vesta was able to gently reach out and tenderly take hold of the spacecraft with its gravity and draw it into orbit.

The MESSENGER data showed an increase in the number of — not electrically charged — neutrons at Mercury's orbit hours before the large number of charged particles reached the spacecraft.

The re-usable shuttles were the first (and still the only) spacecraft to reach orbit more than once.

Then Juno's orbit will carry the spacecraft below its south pole and away from Jupiter, well beyond the reach of harmful radiation.

When it reaches Mars in September 2014, the spacecraft will enter a highly elliptical orbit that will let it dip directly into the Red Planet's atmosphere.

When it reaches Mars in August, the spacecraft will first enter a highly elliptical orbit.

Hubble's renown is certainly well - deserved, but the spacecraft is aging — it will mark its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit in April.

Over several months, the spacecraft will slowly circularize its orbit, dipping in and out of the atmosphere, and using that friction to reach a circular orbit 400 kilometers above the surface.

Previous spacecraft launched under New Frontiers include New Horizons, which surveyed Pluto and is now due to visit MU69, an icy object in the farthest reaches of the solar system; Juno, now in orbit around Jupiter; and OSIRIS - REx, launched last year, which will collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth.

(Officially, an orbit starts when the spacecraft reaches its farthest distance, or «apojove,» which it does for the first time on July 27.

Spacecraft instruments will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high - energy particles streaming from the sun and dust - particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt.

Every spacecraft deploys valves and other instruments using pyrotechnic mechanisms once they reach orbit, to prepare for further flight operations.

The trick was to find ones that are in orbits that the unmanned New Horizons spacecraft can reach with its remaining fuel.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft hasn't reached optimum orbit around Ceres but the data it's returning has already got scientists excited.

Akatsuki is at Venus, several rovers and orbiters are at Mars, the Juno spacecraft just reached Jupiter, Cassini is still orbiting Saturn, Dawn is still at Ceres, and Rosetta continues to study the comet 67P.